Bill Campbell is the author the novels Koontown Killing Kaper and My Booty Novel as well as the essay collection, Pop Culture: Politics, Puns, and "Poohbutt" from a Liberal Stay-at-Home Dad. He lives in Washington, DC.
"Sunshine Patriots quickly reaches critical mass, and shines with a
furious, distinctive, and compelling energy all its own!"
-- Tony Daniel, author of Metaplanetary
"[Campbell's writing] is at once inventive, funny, and poetic.
There is a brilliant future in his imagined worlds".
-- Darius James, author of Negrophobia and That's
Blaxploitation: Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude!!!
"As these are historic times, many works of literature are bound to
be inspired. Campbell's Sunshine Patriots deserves
attention as such a work."—Kim Thorpe, Boston's Weekly Dig
"A jazzily written, satirically tinged story."—Bill
O'Driscoll, Pittsburgh City Paper
"[Bill Campbell has] founded an entirely new literary
genre."—Pamela Zoslov, Cleveland Free Times
"Sunshine Patriots is outrageous and brilliant. Its characters will
intrigue and enrage you; its story is as familiar as an old shirt
and as wondrous as a soothsayer's vision. Few authors have both the
skill and the chutzpah to push the frontiers of science fiction
this far, and this well."—Kavita Philip, author of Civilizing
Natures
"A real page-turner, and very thought provoking besides. I didn't
want to put this one down. Every scene played out before me like a
movie. This was a very good book. The characters were well
developed and three dimensional. I got into them right off. The
setting was also very well developed. I could almost smell the
alien colony while I was reading. Good work. Bill Campbell is a
name to watch. I predict more good books from him in the
future."—Dan L. Hollifield, Aphelion Review
"In his debut novel, Sunshine Patriots , author Bill
Campbell presents an oppressive techno-corporate political machine
presiding over a Unified Earth, unified primarily in its abject
poverty and desolation. The book ... portrays an Earth as global
slum, from which forced enlistment in the armed services
constitutes the only "escape" for the brutalized classes. Rife with
dystopian themes, Sunshine Patriots also reveals a wry and literate
sense of humor (a lead character, the Jamaican war hero Aaron
Edmund Barber, known as "the Berber," nominally evokes two of
Shakespeare's most compelling villains), a sure ear for slang and
the expressive richness of subculture, and an intriguing
sociopolitical motivation. In other words, unlike in the bulk of
the sci-fi canon, it isn't always the Anglo/Asian who saves the
day, and it isn't always the black guy who gets it in the
neck."—John Rodat, Metroland (Albany, New York)
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